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Have your children ever had an extremely disruptive child in elementary class?
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Anonymous
| I'm just wondering--at what extent do the disruptions become too much and the child is placed elsewhere? One of our children has a classmate who tantrums, kicks teachers, throws things, screams and runs out of the classroom (regularly). This has been going on all year with no improvement (I volunteer frequently in the classroom and so does a neighbor. The neighbor told me that other parents have complained to the principal but doesn't know what they were told). The child seems to be quite bright and social when not misbehaving. |
Anonymous
| Sounds like my DD. My guess is that they are working on it. I know that we are. Most of my childs issues come from specific incidents so we are all working to mitigate the issue but at the same time there are certain social skills that must be learned and unfortunately they are learned at school. Also, my child's disruptions were really only happening at school and not at home. |
Anonymous
| It needs to be far more significant thatn what you're describing. The school is likely working on it with the parents but unless the child is a danger to others or himself, they tend to keep the kids in a mainstream classroom. |
Anonymous
| OP-I'm wondering how much more significant it could get? The child frequently kicks/hits the teachers! I feel terrible for them. |
Anonymous
| We had a borderline autistic child in our classroom. He kicked, bit, ran, wasn't fully potty trained... Everyone was "working on it", his parents wanted him mainstreamed, but it really does distract from the class as a whole. He finally got an "official" diagnosis, and leaves the classroom for much of the day for more one-on-one instruction. This has really benefitted the class. He's learning a lot from the on-on-one instruction and he rarely has outbursts anymore. |
Anonymous
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Typically, this has to go on for a while and everything has to be documented before anything can be done. It is very frustrating to have a child in the class with one of these disruptive children, but the staff has a protocol they have to go through, especially if the child has an IEP.
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Anonymous
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Sorry that your child's classroom is disrupted but I'm assuming this child has an IEP in place and is entitled to an education in the least restrictive environment, Have you considered that the "disruptive child" may learn how to control their actions better by having peer models? That there may be a benefit to both the child and the children in the classroom that you can't see.
As for talking to the principal, if the principal says anything to other parents about that individual child he or she can and may very well be sued. |
Anonymous
| as long as you all continue to vaccinate, you'll have ever-increasing disruptions in your classrooms. 1 in 5 children have neurological disorders now. It's the aluminum and mercury, folks. |
Anonymous
| My child's first grade class has a student with what I assume to be severe ADHD. I'm a teacher and have never seen a child this bad. I don't know if he isn't medicated or if the medication isn't working but I feel sorry for him. He does the best he can but he is quite disruptive. The kids have gotten used to him and now are good at reminding him what he should be doing. The school does have a behavior specialist b/c some of the self-contained special ed students can get out of hand sometimes. Sometimes me son will tell me that the behavior specialist came to take this student "for a walk." |
Anonymous
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Yes, there is such a child in my child's class -- and it drives me #@$% crazy because this is a competitive private school. They just keep "working with him" year after year.
I have a very cynical take on why this particular child gets to stay. |
Anonymous
| Yup. We have one in our private school classroom and they are "working on it." It drives me crazy. Whenever my kid complains to me about him, I complain in writing. |
Anonymous
Its all anonymous here, hon, give us the dirt! |
Anonymous
| I am a teacher. We have 2 students like this. Believe me, it is hard. |
Anonymous
Are you in public or private? I guess in private they can be counseled-out...what happens in public? At a certain point, the kid's got to go, right? Where do they go? |
Anonymous
| Public charter. Very young grade, so it makes it hard. At various points they have only been allowed to return to school with parent escorts for the whole day. One of them is on a probation of sorts and can be sent home immediately if he has an outburst. This is after months of outbursts though, outbursts and really took away hours of instructional time and focus for the other kids. |